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They Played Themselves: A Note Before We BeginLet’s be honest about what we’re doing here. Someone handed a bunch of out-of-state dark-money lawyers a whiteboard and a dream, and asked them to write a Model Election Laws Handbook that would turn West Virginia — and every other state willing to listen — into a laboratory for voting restrictions. The result is a 116-page document that dresses up activist wishcasting in the language of legislative drafting and calls it policy research.After wading through their methodology and digging deep into the junk data — and I use the word “data” charitably, the way you’d call a gas station hot dog “cuisine”—here’s the thing that’s going to make you laugh: they played themselves.The crown jewel of the entire handbook, the empirical foundation on which the whole thing rests, is a single poll. One poll, commissioned by their own allied fund, conducted by a pollster who has been rated as favoring Republican-aligned results fielded in a very specific window: January 17–21, 2025.Let that sink in. They surveyed voters three days before Donald Trump’s second inauguration — at the precise peak of Republican voter enthusiasm, when Trump’s approval rating had climbed to 47%, its highest point of his second term before beginning a steady decline to 36% by late 2025. They captured Republicans at maximum victory-lap energy and Democrats at maximum “what just happened” shock, then used those results to claim that the American people overwhelmingly support citizenship purges of voter rolls.It’s like polling fans leaving a stadium after their team won the Super Bowl and concluding that the country loves football and nothing else matters.The poll they’re so proud of is a time-stamped artifact of a single partisan moment — and that moment has already passed. Trump’s approval among independents alone dropped 21 percentage points over the course of 2025. The handbook, meanwhile, is designed to be permanent law.So buckle up. What follows? The short version: there’s less real data here than in a fortune cookie, and the fortune cookie at least tells you something true about your future.But First: Who’s Holding the Whiteboard?The Election Integrity Network isn’t a group of concerned West Virginians who got angry about election security and decided to write a handbook. It’s one of eight organizations launched in 2021 by the Conservative Partnership Institute — a Washington D.C. nonprofit at 300 Independence Ave SE.In 2024, CPI paid Mark Meadows, Trump’s former White House Chief of Staff, $871,853 in base compensation — plus $37,831 in additional benefits. Call it $909,000.Not millions. Just under a million. From a charity. That collects tax-deductible donations from donors whose names appear nowhere on the public filing.EIN is chaired by Cleta Mitchell, whose résumé includes a starring role on the January 2, 2021 phone call in which Donald Trump urged Georgia officials to “find 11,780 votes.” She resigned from her law firm when the call became public, testified before the January 6 Select Committee, and then did what any reasonable person would do next: built a 50-state election legislation network. The Model Election Laws Handbook is her flagship product.Her law firm, Compass Legal Group, billed CPI $608,984 for “legal services” in 2024, also from 300 Independence Ave SE. Compass Professional Inc. billed $986,048 for “administrative services.” Conservative Partnership Campus Inc. billed $1,202,229 for “facility services.” All from the same address.Four entities. One building. Nearly $3.2 million in related payments, routed through a 501(c)(3) charity that raised $32.3 million in anonymous contributions last year.Meanwhile, in Mannington, West Virginia, a man named Ed Fisher runs Citizens for West Virginia Election Integrity. He volunteers his time. He submits public comments to the West Virginia Legislature on Sunday nights at 9:58 PM.He is not paid. He is thanked in the dedication.The dedication calls volunteers like Ed Fisher “tireless warriors” who are “the backbone of saving America.” It says EIN owes them “an enormous debt of gratitude.”That is a beautiful thing to say to someone you’re not paying.Mark Meadows gets $909,000. Ed Fisher gets called a warrior. Keep that in mind as you read everything that follows.The Poll: Reading the Numbers They Don’t Want You to ReadHere is what EIN claims: that “Americans strongly support” the policies in the handbook, and that a poll confirms their reforms are “commonsense” and “desired by the voters.”Here is what the poll actually shows — if you read past the summary slide.The survey was commissioned by the FAIR Elections Fund, an organization in the same ideological orbit as CPI, and conducted by RMG Research Inc. — the firm founded by Scott Rasmussen, whose work has been repeatedly flagged for a pro‑Republican house effect.The fieldwork...

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